Keywords: Wadsworth Longfellow House (Me.)
Item 5417
Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 5416
Doorway, Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1902
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1902 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 38579
Assessor's Record, 485 Congress Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Maine Historical Society Use: Dwelling - Single family
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Exhibit
Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.
Site Page
Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music
"… Wadsworth Longfellow spent his childhood in the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, nurtured by family members who read avidly, drew, painted, played…"
Site Page
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901
"He was the second of eight children born to Stephen and Zilpah Longfellow. At age 13 he published his first poem in the Portland Gazette, signing it…"
Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
